Candy Evans

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

Dallas County Property Taxes: Officials Vote Themselves a 6 Percent Raise

By Candy Evans / August 17, 2016 /

“Candace, do they even care how property taxes affect small businesses? Property taxes are by far my biggest expense. I pay over $100,000 a year in property taxes. I would love to hire another $45,000 employee, but I am holding off until I know what our property taxes and other taxes will do.” How many…

Vicki White, Agent for Belle Nora, Joins Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty

By Candy Evans / August 16, 2016 /

What a way to end the summer. I have known Vicki for a long time, as long as I have been blogging about Dallas real estate. I have even gotten to know her sister — both are darling gals — and turns out, Dallas born and raised Vicki is great friends with some of my…

Hearing on Lowering the Dallas County Tax Rate Tomorrow Morning, No One Has Signed Up to Speak

By Candy Evans / August 15, 2016 /

That headline is not entirely accurate now, because, after Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins told me this morning that no one has signed up to speak on lowering the tax rate, I signed up. But others should, too. As I told him, most taxpayers will likely be at work — in their offices, in the…

Be Bachelorette JoJo Fletcher’s Neighbor in Roomy M Streets Charmer

By Candy Evans / August 14, 2016 /

I have to admit, I might very well pull myself out of Preston Hollow and plunk down in Lakewood for the right home on Mercedes Ave. Whilst perusing this angel at 6030 Mercedes, heart of the M Streets, Stonewall Jackson Elementary, perfectly sited between Greenville and Abrams, I came home and dreamed about living on…

Goff’s Hamburgers Fire Destroys Office of Famed Dallas Architect Wilson Fuqua

By Candy Evans / August 13, 2016 /

We are all mourning the loss of Goff’s Hamburgers in University Park, located in a charming, circa 1924 brick building at 6401 Hillcrest Avenue, corner Hillcrest and McFarland, near Southern Methodist University. Though no longer owned by iconic hamburger king Harvey Goff, everyone has grabbed a burger there at some point. Harvey Goff ran the…